*WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2025**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**WINNER OF THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026*'A book about honest work and modest dreams, about sons and their duty, and those brief, wonderful moments when we glimpse the possibility of living a different life. Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically plotted...radiant” (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day.Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for sh...

VINCITORE DEL PREMIO SPECIALE EDOARDO KIHLGREN - OPERA PRIMA LETTERATURA EUROPEAAl termine di una giornata di lavoro come tante, il giovane Oscar si incammina verso casa. Passando accanto alla cappella del King’s College, viene attratto dal suono dell’organo e decide di entrare. Mentre si abbandona all’ascolto, incrocia lo sguardo di Iris Bellwether, studentessa di Medicina, violoncellista ed esuberante figlia della ricca borghesia di Cambridge. Oscar si innamora d...

The debut novel from the 2025 Booker-longlisted author of Seascraper'One of the finest British novelists of his generation' Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel'Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer and I intend to read everything he has written' Douglas Stuart'What a writer' Richard Osman'A stunningly good de...

From the 2025 Booker-longlisted author of Seascraper'One of the finest British novelists of his generation' Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel'Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer and I intend to read everything he has written' Douglas Stuart'What a writer' Richard Osman**‘**With his third novel, Wood’s tal...

Brought to you by Penguin.*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025**WINNER OF THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026*Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy ...

From the 2025 Booker-longlisted author of Seascraper'One of the finest British novelists of his generation' Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel'Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer and I intend to read everything he has written' Douglas Stuart'What a writer' Richard OsmanShortlisted for the

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this “cinematically plotted...radiant” (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day.Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for sh...

"Cambridge, de nos jours. Au détour d’une allée du campus, Oscar est attiré par la puissance de l’orgue et des chants provenant de la chapelle de King’s College. Subjugué, il ne peut maîtriser un sentiment d’extase. Premier rouage de l’engrenage. Dans l’assemblée, une jeune femme capte son attention. Iris n’est autre que la sœur de l’organiste virtuose, Eden Bellwether, dont la passion exclusive pour la musique baroque s’accompagne d’étranges conceptions sur son usage hypnotique... Un prem...

'Britain's answer to Donna Tartt' Sunday Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel'Was this how it was going to be for ever? Wrapping things for customers in womenswear, no conversation. Polishing the counters so her face reflected in the brass and sweeping floors at closing time until the boss said she could leave. How much worse off would she be if she went driving with a stranger for a while?'When sixteen-year-old Joyc...

Un matin d'août 1995, Daniel Hardesty, douze ans, et son père Fran, qu'il n'a pas vu beaucoup depuis la séparation de celui-ci d'avec sa mère, prennent la route pour le nord de l'Angleterre. Un road-trip qui représente une chance de resserrer leurs liens. Fran, qui travaille sur les décors d'une série télévisée, L'Artifex, dont Daniel est fan, lui a promis de lui faire visiter les studios à Leeds. Cependant, plus les kilomètres défilent, plus les mensonges et le désespoir de Fran ...

" Wood a créé certains des personnages les plus foncièrement humains et sensibles de la littérature contemporaine. Un roman poignant et d'une beauté unique. " Emily St. John Mandel1972, sur l'île de Heybeliada au large d'Istanbul, le refuge de Portmantle accueille des artistes en burn-out. Knell, talentueuse peintre écossaise, y vit depuis une dizaine d'années quand son quotidien est chamboulé par l'arrivée de Fullerton, un nouveau venu instable, qu'elle retrouve bi...